Last Updated 14 years ago by Kenya Engineer
Kenya has more reason to rejoice after Africa Oil Corporation announced increased estimates of the quantities of oil in the blocks it is prospecting. Africa Oil reportedly increased its overall prospective resource base to 9.3 billion barrels, up from 3.7 billion barrels it had earlier estimated for its total blocks.
The Canadian firm says that recent discovery of oil has resulted in a considerable increase in the geological chance of success assigned to numerous prospects and leads most notably in Turkana.
Earlier this week, Africa Oil and its partner Tullow Oil plc announced they had begun drilling a well in northwest Kenya- Twiga South-1 exploration well located in onshore Block 13T.Tullow holds a 50 percent working interest and will be using the Weatherford 804 rig that was used to drill Ngamia-1.
Kenya has a total of 47 oil blocks with Africa Oil prospecting six of them. The first well to strike oil,Ngamia-1 was however suspended in mid-this year following an encounter with an unexpected geological formation.Assesment predicts that the well could contain 188million barrels of oil. Apache has also started off-shore drilling at its Mbawa-1 prospect while Africa Oil is set to start works on its Paipai-1 well come next month.
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